From additive manufacturing to pharma and even off-world construction, rheology and viscometry sit at the core of how materials behave under stress. This eBook brings together expert explainers, application notes, and future-facing insights so you can confidently design, scale, and validate.

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What’s Inside
- Powder Bed-Based Additive Manufacturing & Powder Rheology Explained
How cohesion, flowability, and spreadability shape part quality.
- High-Precision Rheology in Additive Manufacturing
Instrumentation tactics to optimize formulations at the microscale.
- Why Rheology Matters in Food Technology
Texture, shelf life, and processability—engineered through flow.
- Rheological Insights for Pharmaceutical Formulation
Link flow behavior to drug stability, delivery, and manufacturability.
- Powder Tribology for Pharma
Contact, friction, and flow in tablet compression and encapsulation.
- DMTA for Polymer Blend Miscibility
Viscoelastic signatures that predict compatibility and performance.
- Curing an Acrylate with FTIR
Real-time monitoring to tighten polymer process control.
- Martian Homes: Soil + Spirulina
Sustainable binders and rheology for extraterrestrial builds.
- Thixotropy in Metals
Demystifying time-dependent viscosity for casting and forming.
Why Download
- Design Better: Translate flow curves into practical formulation decisions.
- Scale Smarter: Anticipate process behavior before you hit the line.
- Validate Faster: Pair rheology/viscometry with spectroscopy and thermal methods for robust QA.

Who Should Read This
- Materials scientists
- Process engineers
- Formulators (pharma, food, polymers)
- Additive manufacturing specialists
- QA/RA leads
- R&D managers
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This information has been sourced, reviewed and adapted from materials provided by Thermo Fisher Scientific – Material Characterization.
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